When 20th Century Fox released the first official images (to Entertainment Weekly) of Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse, titular mutant super-villain of next year’s eagerly anticipated ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ they might not have anticipated quite this response.

Cyberspace has been awash with comments on how uncannily similar this live action take on the classic ‘X-Men’ character is to that of a certain other villain from an earlier 20th Century Fox superhero movie - Ivan Ooze, central bad guy of 1995′s ‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.’

Ooze, portrayed by esteemed British actor Paul Freeman (’Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ‘Hot Fuzz’), was a similarly purple-hued, reptilian-featured baddie who battled the Power Rangers with magic slime and corny one-liners in the big screen spin-off of the much-loved TV action adventure series.

Given that the ‘Power Rangers’ movie was also a Fox production, it’s a little disheartening that no one involved in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ seems to have made this connection before now - and fan reactions on Twitter range from the incredulous to the vitriolic:

Incidentally, a new ‘Power Rangers’ movie is currently in the works at Lionsgate with director Dean Israelite, although little is known about this at present. Somehow, we’re not expecting Ooze to make a comeback.

In the final installment of Arthouse Summer, the Arthouse Legends
crew take on the one filmmaker no one expected to be touched; Michael
Bay. In 1996, fresh off his unexpectedly successful feature debut, he
released his second film with famous action producers Don Simpson and
Jerry Bruckheimer with action icon Sean Connery along with esteemed
actors Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris called The Rock about a convict and a
federal agent trying to bring down an esteemed general and his forces
that have holed up on Alcatraz with 81 hostages and tons of nerve gas.
But does this film deserve the adoration of critics and action fans or
should it have been victim to one of Bay’s trademark explosions?

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